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Six years ago, a young man climbed off a tiny boat onto a Greek beach. He was clutching his shoes and could only say one thing to the woman holding out her arms to him: "Are we safe now?" It was the start of something no one could have predicted. The Friendship File
On the steps of a politics tutorial there was an accusation. "You don't know anything about me." That changed. There was a roast chicken involved. More than one. This is the story of thirty years of mutual support ... and insults! t
Five key things come up again and again as our friends talk about each other and their relationships. Five things that could make a difference to our own friendships. In this short mid-season special, find out what the friends are trying to tell us. The Friendship File
"I am the reason she always carries snacks in her handbag." "She is like a dance I know all the moves to." Two young women guiding each other through life, creating a strong, honest, playful relationship as they do it. The Friendship File
Catherine Carr and Louise Halling met as students and bonded over dodgy sign language. They have been talking ever since. Find out how they've helped create - literally and figuratively - each other's life story. The Friendship File
Martin Plimmer and Michael Magenis met on a bus or over a bottle of vodka ... no one is sure. What is certain is they were destined to go places together neither would have reached alone. They became The Men Who Know, sharing 24-hour schnapps-fuelled writing sessions, prank calls to the BeeGees, performances with Eartha Kitt and being sung off stage to the death march - but, above all, an extraordinary friendship. The Friendship File
Emma Freud and Richard Coles met at the beginning of their TV careers - he was a pop star, she was interviewing people in a double bed and both were new to the job. They just clicked. In the first of a new Friendship File series, they reveal a secret fake wedding ceremony, offering an illustrious classical composer class A drugs and why it’s better to be pretty than clever. And, as you'll hear, even after 35 years they can still surprise each other. The Friendship File
The Friendship File is back - two friends recording answers to 17 questions, on their own and without conferring. Each episode combines those answers. The results are surprising, funny, moving, weird, life-affirming and, usually, a bit of a revelation. We start with brilliant UK broadcasters, Emma Freud and pop-star turned Reverend, Richard Coles - friends for over three decades but who, it turns out, can still raise each other's eyebrows! The Friendship File
What was it like the first time you spoke? Has doing The Friendship File made a difference? What have you learned? In this Series One finale, our friends reveal what happened next. The Friendship File
These girls seem like chalk and cheese but they share one thing - they're both misfits. Their connection leads to an enduring friendship no one could have predicted. The Friendship File
Two very different boys lose touch after school. Both are on the path to success when chance brings them back together to create a friendship that becomes essential to both their lives. The Friendship File
Two women connect in church. Both from a small town, they each have big dreams. Can they make those dreams a reality? www.thefriendshipfile.com
College roommates end up on opposite sides of the world. How can you be there for each other when you're so far apart? The Friendship File
In bedrooms 500 miles apart, two nerds discover a virtual connection. Could it ever become a real world friendship? The Friendship File
There was an argument by a swimming pool. Or was there? Either way there was football, food, yoga ... and a friendship that would become more important than anyone could ever have imagined. The Friendship File
Two very clever - and very different - girls. One song that suddenly bridges the gap. The Friendship File
Two determined, ambitious boys dislike each other on sight. But then ... things begin to change.
A 13-year-old cuckoo arrives in another 13-year-old's nest. A machete is involved. Surely these two will never be friends? www.thefriendshipfile.com
A lecturer and a student hit it off. A meeting of creative minds. But what happens after graduation? www.thefriendshipfile.com
Navigating the maze of 21st Century life? What you need is a friend with a ball of string and a megaphone … and a bottle of really good wine. www.thefriendshipfile.com
Two brilliant young musicians, riffing off each other. (Tech note: our friends record themselves so, sometimes, there are a few sound quality issues. This is one of those times). www.thefriendshipfile.com
What do they say? You can choose your friends but you can't choose your family. What if they're both? www.thefriendshipfile.com
The people you meet on your first day of university. Sometimes you spend the rest of the year trying to get rid of them. Sometimes you’re friends for life. How long might that be? www.thefriendshipfile.com
Newish friends. Can an English man and a South African woman find their shared ground? www.thefriendshipfile.com
There's not really any 'presenting' in the files themselves, so here's a quick introduction to the The Friendship File - how it came about, what it's trying to do and why, if you have friends you really like (and we hope you do), you should take a listen and, of course, subscribe. www.thefriendshipfile.com
Digital storytelling is a growing movement across the world. Using simple digital tools, it helps people from all walks of life tell their own stories - to heal, to share, to be listened to. Rhodes Community Engagement is part of Common Good First, a global digital network of universities that showcases and connects social innovation projects around the world, and digital storytelling is at the heart of it. In this latest edition of Engagement in Action, hear how RUCE is helping the community make its voices heard.
“If you were to ask in the modern university how much engaged research there is, it would be very, very small. We are living in an era when society is pushing back at universities and saying, ‘for us to see that you are valuable we want to see you take the risk of getting into the messy spaces’.” Professor Tally Palmer, Director of the Institute of Water Research, won the 2018 VC’s Distinguished Community Engagement Award for her championing of ‘engaged research’ – research that partners with communities and shares knowledge and information, rather than imposes knowledge or extracts information. Instead of giving a lecture, Tally decided to engage and invited the community to a workshop – Makana: Water Works For Everyone. Hear what happened that night in the City Hall and find out more about a new kind of research for the 21st Century.
"If you walk across the stage at graduation and all you have is knowledge, then we have failed you as a university." Professor Chrissie Boughey retired as Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Academic and Student Affairs in June 2019. Central to her work at Rhodes was a focus on the integration of community engagement into all aspects of university life, driven by her deep conviction that Rhodes is uniquely placed to create graduates who have acquired much more than just information and skills. In this edition of Engagement in Action, she tells Jayne Morgan about the realisation of her vision of community engagement as a key pillar of what the university has to offer.
"It is better to light a candle than to curse darkness.” Public schooling in Grahamstown is broken. Just kilometers away from some of the most expensive and well-resourced schools in the country, are schools that are crumbling, teachers who are not coping and a system that is failing an entire generation of learners. In his inaugural speech in 2015, Rhodes Vice Chancellor, Dr Sizwe Mabizela, vowed to do something about it. Three years on, and no one could have predicted how much difference his remarkable education initiative would make.
“For many people, technology is not empowering, it's disempowering.“ Clement Simuja arrived at Rhodes from Malawi to do a PhD in Information Systems about “something to do with agriculture“. Then a desperate head teacher from Alexandria arrived in the department asking for help. His school had plenty of computers but no one who knew how to use them. Clement went to see what he could do. It changed his research, it changed his life and the lives of many others. This is a story of technology, inspiration and insight into increasing Africa's chances of a genuine digital revolution.
“Every single human being on this planet lives in a catchment. You are upstream of somebody or downstream of somebody. Water is the great integrating factor.“ Professor Tally Palmer is Director for the Institute for Water Research and founder of the Unilever Centre for Environmental Water Quality. What does she believe we can we do to meet the challenges of quantity, quality and access to water in this country?
Nosiphiwe “Nosi” Ngqwala arrived at Rhodes to do a masters in biochemistry. She became a student volunteer but realised there was no organisation focusing on what she felt was the most important job of all - teaching the next generation of South Africans how to look after their environment. So she founded Children of the Soil to do just that. She now has a PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and is a senior lecturer in the Pharmacy Department, but her passion for community building, for youth upliftment and for environmental education is as strong as ever.
Professor Jacqui Akhurst started her career as a teacher, became a school psychologist and then a full-time academic. Starting in KZN, moving to the UK in 2004 (York and York St John Universities) and then to Rhodes in 2015, her research focus has long been community psychology. Through her inspiration and guidance, Rhodes Psychology Department is one of the university's most active - and effective - when it comes to community engagement. In the second edition of the podcast, hear how she has helped create powerful interventions for students and community organisations alike. Prof Jacqui Akhurst at Rhodes
People need fresh, healthy food. But growing fresh food needs a reliable source of water in a water scarce country. The Amanzi for Food project – funded by the Water Research Commission (WRC) and led and implemented by the Environmental Learning Research Centre at Rhodes – brings together farmers, extension services, local economic development, agricultural training institutions and agricultural NGOs. They share knowledge and skills around harvesting, storing, and using rainwater to improve food production and to make farming as sustainable as possible. Find out how it works in this first edition of ‘Engagement in Action’ and how it benefits every single person involved – from subsistence farmers to academics. Amanzi for Food webpage